Home Assistant Daily: Netatmo Battery Sensors and Security Updates
A new battery sensor feature for Netatmo doortags was merged, alongside security improvements for supervisor operations and discovery system updates for UniFi devices.
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- Show: Home Assistant Daily
- Published: 2026-04-28T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M1S
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Good morning. This is Home Assistant Daily for April 28th, 2026.
farkasdi merged a pull request adding battery sensor support for Netatmo doortags. The update enhances the existing doortag integration with battery monitoring capabilities, modifying sensor components and data handlers across five files with over 400 lines of new code.
In additional development activity, Mike Degatano implemented security improvements requiring admin privileges for supervisor event publishing and addon options access. This change strengthens permission controls for Home Assistant OS operations.
Raphael Hehl migrated UniFi Network discovery from the legacy SSDP protocol to a dedicated unifi_discovery system, streamlining device detection and reducing dependencies. The same developer also added relay output switch controls for UniFi Protect devices through the public API.
Paul Bottein introduced a complete integration for Novy Cooker Hood devices, supporting both lighting and fan platform controls with comprehensive configuration flows and quality scaling.
Several component updates include a temporary mute button for Heiman smoke detectors in the Matter platform, battery mode selection for Zinvolt…
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